I was room mom in a first grade classroom when we reenacted the scene from Stand By Me. One poor kid with a tummy bug lost it right on the reading corner rug after lunch. One by one, one at a time, the puke went round the room. It was a chain reaction of puke. It took out eight kids, plus the original puker. The classroom was covered in post-lunch puke. Taco Tuesday. All. Over. The. Room. The smell...

And there was a sub that day. A very young sub. Right out of college. Now this was the class of my youngest (and I taught pre-k for years) so I have experience with multiple child vomit situations, and can more or less handle the triage and damage control. This poor summer child, though, did not. It was a school rule that a sick kid in the lower grades needed an adult escort to the nurse, so I spent a good hour walking puking kids to the office. The sub, tears in her eyes, offered to switch it up with me, but I couldn't be in the classroom without a staff member, so that was a no. It was only after nine piles of taco vomit on the floor of this not-large classroom, covered in that sawdust magic puke cleaner stuff, that the principal had enough mercy on this poor sub to pull what was left of the kids out of the room and send them to the gym.

Yeah, that sub never came back. I imagine she went into retail soon after.

blodyholy: "Health officials say the students also practiced poor hygiene by sharing the food and liquid, the latter of which they drank from their hands, lunch trays and other ill-advised conduits."

Lol...wut?

Public schools in the US are now too poor to afford cups. Thanks, Betsy DeVos.

/when I was their age, we drank from our shoes
//quickly because it would leak out the holes in the toe
///we were thankful